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190 AGRICULTURAL. DANIEL LEE, M. Editor. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1859. COMMON SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA. The Legislature of this State convenes at MSledgevillo this week, under circumstances which lead us to expect that Common Schools, and the education of the masses, will command more than ordinary attention. All intelligent men recognise the fact, and a large majority re gret, that our system of education is so defec tive and inefficient. Its improvement presents matter for consideration, not only of the highest importance to the well being of the State, but of the deepest interest to both parents and clii* j dren as private citizens. It is impossible.^ o overestimate either the dignity or the val»® 01 that mental, moral and social culture, whch the youth of both sexes, rich and poor al> le > receive under the care and instruction o*’ a wisely or ganized system of Common Schcds. Long obser vation in different States, theexperience of more than twenty years as Superintendent of Com mon Schools, and an inspector of their teachers, lead us to believe th*» the bcst results are at tained far less by private educators, however excellent, than »y « wise and comprehensive sys tem of pop' v ’ ar instruction, which places educa tion with ll the reach of all. Yet, wo question the propriety of attempting at this time to estab lis 1 f ret schools over ull the inhabited parts of ,ue great State of Georgia. As one who has children to educate at an institution of this pri mary character, some of whom have been born in the State, we shall rejoice to see its schools as good in the next ten years as were those of New York in the first decade of the present cen tury. The writor was thirty years old when he first saw a man born in the State of New York, who could not read nor write; and he well re members the surprise which the incident occa sioned. The unfortunate man was born of Low- Dutch parents in the valley of the Mohawk, at a place and time when and where the English language was neither spoken, nor taught in schools; nor had the State provided Dutch schools in his mother tongue. IVe remember at tending schools in Herkimer county, fifty years ago; and from that time to the present, it has never cost a parent over a dollar a quarter to send a child to an excellent school; or four dol lars a year. Os course, this was not a free school system; yet, it was a system that made educa tion free to all who were unable to pay for the tuition of their children, and so cheap to those who did pay, that no child ever grew up without at least the rudiments of a sound public educa tion. Judging from what we see in the public prints, as well as from the actual state of com mon schools in Georgia, there prevails the fun damental error of dividing all children into two classes only, and regarding the one as paupers, and the other as belonging to rich families.— Now, in point of fact, the great mass of chil dren occupy a position between these extremes; their parents and guardians are neither ricli enough to support good private schools, nor so ► poor as to be beggars. Let the Legislature meet the educational wants of this middle class, which embraces a large ma jority of the people, and at tiio same time close the door of no public school to any child because too poor to pay tuition, and it will remove the only reproach that has the least force, when ap plied to our peculiar institution, and to southern society. It is a sad mistake to assume that a sparse population in the South, cannot have as good Common Schools as existed in New York fifty years ago, when its rural inhabitants were few, and even more scattered than those of Georgia now are. Less than six hundred thou sand white persons in this State, own tbirty seyen million acres of fair farming land; own * nearly a half million of slaves; own more than a thousand miles of railroad, and minerals of un known value; and are, in sober truth, probably richer as a commonwealth than any other equal population in the civilized world. -If there is a nation abroad, or a state in the great republic, whose taxes on property for the support of a good government, are as light as those of Geor gia, we should like to see the person who can name it. Our means are ample to make our common schools precisely what they ought to be without doing injustice to any interest whatever. Acoording to the luminous, and most instructive report o£ Comptroller Thweatt, $130,000,00 will be expended in 1860 from the State Treasury for common school purposes; “and allowing $50,- 000 for extraordinary appropriations, there will still be a surplus of $289,605 to apply to the fur ther reduction of the puulic debt, to education, or to any other purpose the next legislature may direct.” Suppose the legislature appropriates $170,- 000 of-the above named surplus, to increaso the common school fund to $300,000 available mon ey, per annum ; this will leave of the $289,000 surplus, $119,000, as an annual sinking fund, for the more speedy extinction of the public debt, pr partly for that purpose, and partly for the aid oiSdl the higher Seminaries of learning and sciem\ In this connection, we ask par ticular attention to the fact, that the interest on the six dollars, common school fund of the State ofNpw York, yields an income per capita, as eompaWl with the whole number of children to be edu\ted, less than half as large as three hundred thousand dollars will be to ed ucate the children of GecWia. The white pop ulation of New York is rao\thau six times that of this Suite; while the inleiAn on six millions, even at seven per cent, (which lVdoes not yield,) is only $420,00 a year. How th<V it may be asked, does sq small an income opeWe to give life, strength and permanency to some eftveii thou sand of the best schools, and each with \n ex cellent public library, in the w'orld ? EHE fcOTrafKW&i WSM&M Ml The grand object is attained by using tbe in terest on the public school fund as a "bounty, for the support of a nearly perfect system of pop ular education. The Common School System of New York is far from t*ing the creation of any one mind or/ ye»f; or of any one generation. It hjrs steadily grown since the Revolution, to Income what it is—the cheapest and best educational machine for the use of a sparse filming population, in this or any other country". Recently, in visiting the mountainous districts *t the head-waters of the Savannah it seemed like returning to our school-boy ramb’es in New York, on the head-waters of the Smquehannah; nor is there any more difficulty \i maintaining good common schools in Rabun county now than there was in Chenango county fifty years ago. Give the citizens of Rabun their share of $300,000 a year as a bonus, not as a pauper fund, nor as a perfectly free school fund, but to aid them in establishing the best common schools which their peculiar circumstances will allow, and their own good sense will rapidly develop schools infinitely better than any they now pos sess. The noble element of self-government, and wise self-education, must be brought into requisition, before the people will fully appre ciate all the benefits and blessings of high moral and intellectual culture. You cannot, by a steam engine and forcing pump, drive both knowledge and virtue into the human brain. Time must be given for natural growth, as well in systems of mental discipline, as in forms of government, and in the stately oak that springs from a little acorn. It is equally an error to at tempt nothing for the general support of good common schools, and to undertake to supply every neighborhood with a perfect institution, free from all local expense, all parental thought or feeling on the subject. Give the masses good seed to plant, water and cultivate, and thus make their common school education far more their ow'n bnsiuess than that of the State. Every man takes a deeper interest in the fruit of his own labor than in any public gift of twice the nominal value. No school district can draw from the public treasury in New York its share of the common fund until it raises, by a tax on the taxable pro perty of ill 9 district, at least as much money as it gets from the State. The policy of the State, founded on long experience, allows considerable discretion to its qualified voters in cities, coun ties, towns, and school districts, in the matter of taxing themselves for common school purposes. They can tax nobody but themselves, no more than the voters of Augusta can create a mu nicipal debt for the citizens of Savannah to pay. When we resided in the city of Rochester it contained more free-liolders, (that is, owners of real estate,) than voters; for many widows and other females own land, who cannot vote at elec tions, either to lessen or increase the several taxes on their property. The true policy is to stimulate the people to think and act for their own advancement and elevation. Schools are only the means to ac complish an end. They are not play-thiugs for idle boys and girls, but sharp tools, which may do harm if badly used. Cash premiums to the amount of three hundred thousand dollars a year for the improvement of Georgia schools, will soon give the State the best system of pop ular education in all the South. She has both the talent and the funds to take the lead in this glorious enterprise, and still have taxes less on the one hundred dollars than those of any other State South or North. Help such as have energy enough to labor for their own benefit, and be careful to help nobody else; otherwise you vir tually tax the industrious to pay a premium on laziness. Place a first-class school within the roach of every parent, but be sure that he has to work a little to command its advantages, or he will not duly appreciate their value. These re marks apply not to the needy from any misfortune, but to the stupid, the indifferent, and the per verse, whether poor or rich, or somewhere be tween. The rich often evince a disposition to neglect the proper education of their children, and need a spur to action quite as much as the poor. It should be the policy of “ the empire State of the South” to render ignorance dis creditable to any citizen born within its limits. Mir.d, highly and wisely cultivated, gives em pire, because it is the power appointed by God to rule in human affairs. There is too much mind in Georgia that is little more cultivated than its thirty million acres of primitive forest, and abandoned old fields. Work the aurifefous deposits in man first, and then he will bring out for the common benefit of all, both golden har vests from the impoverished soil, and gold itself from the granite mountains of the State. Our policy should be to make the political sovereign of the State great, and this can be done by the development of every element of human great ness. Homo-culture and field-culture will rise together or fall together, hs naturally as vernal showers and sunshine bring the flowers of spring, and the fruits of summer. Hence, we deem it wise to improve man first, that he may know how to improve the ground, out of which he was taken. — Ml STEEL PLOW-LARGE WHEAT CROP. Near Geneva, 30th Sep., 1859. Messrs. L. Tucker & Son : I have been using a steel plow this fall, made by Sayre & Reming ton of Ilion, Herkimer Co., N. Y., and it is one of the best plows I ever have used. It plows stubble far better than any I ever saw. One half a field that was in oats was plowed with it —the other half with what is considered a good plow. The whole field was sown in wheat.— The difference in the looks of the wheat now, is wonderful —that plowed with the steel plow is almost like wheat on the best of fallows. Very little oats came up among the wheat; while that plowed with the other plows is oats and wheat. Besides, the steel plows are of much lighter draft for the horses, and lighter to handle by the plowman. The beam and handles are of wood, and all the other parts are of steel. I have not tried it in land that has laid in pasture for some time, but I think it will answer very well, and will. I am satisfied, be quite a saving of labor for the team. The beam of mine was not set quite enough to land, but that can yet be done, and three horse plows of the same kind, that would plow about 12 inches deep, would be just the thing to break up our summer fallows with. By turning up fresh soil to mix with the soil already worked for a long time, i would not only give us stiffer straw, but also a better quality of wheat I had 12 acres in wheat this season, that was plowed 12 inches deep , the quality of the wheat was very fine, and I re gretted it had not been thrashed when I sent you my sample of Mediterranean, as it was still a better specimen than that. That sent was grown on a barley stubble, and gave full 354 bushels to the acre, on 20 acres. My neighbor. Mr. Swan, has just threshed his crop. It was all grown on fallow, and both Soules and Medi terranean is full 40 bushels per acre. The Soules was grown on an old field that had grown seve- ral crops of wheat, and the - Mediterranean was on land that had only raised two crops of wheat; previous to this it had raised some three crops of oats, and never was manured only on the knolls with guano, for (his crop of wheat. On knolls it was far too stout, and went down flat, long before coming in ear. The soil of the field is the very best, but since it was cleared, about 20 years ago, has been in pasture a large portion of the time. John Johnston. We clip the above from the Country Gentleman, mainly to corroborate from our own experience, the statement of one of the best farmers in the j country, as to the superiority of steel plows over j all others for light draft and good work. Nor is the fertility of land which has been ; twenty years in pasture with English grasses, as above incidentally noticed, unworthy the reader's attention. Such grasses draw the ele ments of ammonia from the atmosphere, as well as carbon, and steadily enrich the soil, as it is managed by good husbandmen, from year to year. Even the poor knolls were so productive that the application of a little guano to them, caused the wheat to grow so rank “ that it went down flat long before coming into ear.” Messrs. Johnston and Swan are justly regarded as mod el farmers in western New York : and they pro duce a great deal of fat manure by the fattening of sheep and neat cattle on food adapted to the purpose. Their land is generally a tenacious clay, that requires under draining which it has received. Deep tillage, and the careful saving of all manures, including their production, make their large farms pay the interest on several hundred dollars per acre. — -- LIME IN SOILS. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 19, 1959. Dr. Daniel Lee: Dear Sir : —Enclosed I { send you a sample of my sandy soil, which you requested, with the view of testing for lime. A red clay underlies this top soil, and at a depth of say ten feet or less, a lime foundation, such as is found under the prairie soil. I have tried the sblphate of lime three years on this soil with scarcely any benefit, two years out of three not perceptible. I would be glad to have your opinion of the kind of manure best suited to this character of soil. The portion of the field from which the sample was taken, has been in culti vation thirty years in cotton and still produces good crops of cotton. I have a large body of this character of land. I would further add. that this quality of my land is fully in advance of my prairie 50 per cent in five years or 10 per cent per annum (average.) This land I bed up with double horse plows and cultivate the same as my stiff land. The Georgians I conversed with at your fair, seem doubtful of the good effects of double plowa If they benefit the crops on this soil, I feel confident they would benefit your lands in a greater degree. Very respectfully. "W. C. Bibb. The above letter is from an excellent planter, whose acquaintance we made at the recent Fair in Athens. With the letter there came 437 grains of a sandy soil, from which we obtained eighty-three one hundredths of a grain of lime by the aid of hydrochloric acid, ammonia and oxalic acid. Th 6 proportion of lime is about one part to 500 of the soil. We rather regretted not ascertaining the quantity and character of or ganic matter, for we suspect it has much to do in promoting the fertility of the laud. On heat ing and burning the soil, to free it of all moist ure and mould, it lost 27 grains in weight. Much of the sand is pretty coarse, when freed from alumina and the per oxide of iron. The latter abounds in the soil. If “ the lime foundation” that underlies the surface soil somo ten feet, is accessible, will Col. Bibb be kind enough to send us an ounce of this “ lime,” be it rock, marl, chalk or comtni nated shells ? Possibly it will pay him well to use this calcareous substratum as a topdressing to land in the same field. Doubtless the lime contains more or less phosphoric acid, and it may give his surface soil both bone earth and gypsum, and even improve its too open and sandy character, physically. The red clay sub soil probably contains more lime than that sent to the writer; and a little deeper plowing may prove quite advantageous—adding more clay with its virgin alkalies and phosphates, to the comparatively impoverished sand above it. Our opinion is asked as to the kind of manure best adapted to this character of soil. The tramping of sheep, hogs and other stock will render the light open sand more compact; and to save all expense of hauling and spreading manure, we should have pretty large fields in rotation of crops: seeding to barley and rye, and sometimes wheat and oats in the fall for winter grazing; and raising the maximum of field peas in summer for fattening hogs, sheep, and beef cattle. Two years manuring in this way, covering the pea-vines deep in the sandy soil, would prepare the ground for two successive crops of premium cotton, while the meat, wool, lard and tallow obtained from the sheep, hogs and cattle, if not sold on foot, would yield a large profit. If it were possible to produce cot ton seed enough to manure land sufficiently to grow nothing but our great southern staple, then we would not name the manure of live stock, nor the grass, peas, turnips and grain to support domestic animals and yield the elements of fertility. Our correspondent will not be of fended if we tell him there is yet much to be learned in the art of resting land, or recuperating it in any way. We should be gratified for him to inform our readers, how he managed to raise a good crop of cotton on a field thickly set in Bermuda grass. ——— THE STATE FAIR. Atlanta, Oct. 29, 1859. Fair week, the Carnival of Atlanta, is well nigh over, and everybody has gone home ex hausted and weary, and willing enough that it should be succeeded by a Lent of twelve months duration. The road to the grounds, which yes terday was lined with vehicles, pedestrians and riders, and overclouded with blinding dust, is almost deserted now, and that part of our city will remain unfrequented, until another Fair brings it again into fashion. The city has ne/er been visited by larger crowds of visitors. Every public or private place was literally swarming with these inva ders. You had an unpleasant consciousness of their presence at the theatre; they breathed in your face at the depot and fair ground, and de prived you of your meal by day and your rest by night. Beds, procrustean and otherwise, which had been empty since the closing of the last Fair, were now enlisted into service, and those which had been occupied before, were compelled to do double duty. Many who could find temporary lodging, might have said with King Richard: “ Here will we sleep to-night, but where to-morrow ?’’ When you visited the fair grounds, you found i already assembled a motley crowd of every i class and section. Honest farmers in spuntruck ! and copperas, examining some new plow, or ad miring perhaps an overgrown hog; fast young | men passing sentence on a fast buggy; or pretty ; women, of which Heaven knows there was a plenty, going into raptures over an embroidered dressing gown, a “ dear little bonnet,” or the most beautiful chemisettes (we hope we are not mistaken in the word) in the world. There was a quantity of fancy knick-nacs for sale, made of bead-work and leather, which also elicited from them many expressions of admiration—perhaps because they were for sale. As our pocket book was left behind, we were not able to ex amine them as carefully as we would otherwise have done, aad cannot therefore express an opinion. In the department of fine arts there were exhibited a number of paintings, some of them good, but many of them bad, or at least indifferent. There was a picture of a fine young man, chiefly remarkable for his delicate mous tache ; there were three pictures by Miss Frank lin, of Athens, the best of which was Abd-el- Kader, iu which the oriental features were re ally admirably delineuted. The remaining two were an old woman, wrinkled and in the winter of her life, and another of Tallulah Falls, which was said by visitors to be very faithful to the original Miss Caniack, of Athens, also exhibit ed two paintings, which gave promise of a high j order of talent; one of an Italian flower girl, j and another of Toccoa Falls. There were some ' Grecian paintings, which were well | cuted, but which, when it is remembered that j the colors are put ou printed designs, do not ap pear very difficult. Apelles and other masters of the Grecian school, we imagine, painted in a somewhat different manner. Assisted by Mr. Barnes, who as well as ev ery other gentleman connected with the fair, gave us every facility for seeing, we followed the crowd around from building to building and from stoll to stall. All of the latter were filled Wtlil a gwdlj- number ot’ Dnrhemif?, I>evoua and Brahmins, in the cattle line, and with horses. Morgan, blooded, and of all work. In the form er class was a bull of antideluvian proportions and of 2,700 lbs. He must have been fully as large as the brazen animal of the same species, in whose stomach Phallaris confined his prison ers. The most magnificent stallion on the ground was Sligo, who took the premium, and who be longs to Mr. McGhee, of Troup. There was much disappointment felt at not hearing the anticipated speech of Hon. Rob't. Toombs. The audience was, however, consoled by the address of Rev. C. W. Howard, on Fri day morning, who, besides lending his elo quence, contributed some of the finest stock that was made, to the fair. In the afternoon of the same day there was an exciting trotting match on the track within the enclosure of the fair ground. A small black horse gained the prize, whose owner we did not learn. In the number of visitors and of articles en tered, there is a large increase on former years. Our State Fairs are still far behind those of al most every other State, and until more assis tance is given and interest taken in this exhibi tion, they are likely to remain so for some time to come. FIRST SECTION. Namier of Entries made in each Department. Farm and Field Crops, 10 entries. Samples “ “ 22 “ Horticulture 1 “ Fruit Trees 6 “ Fine Arts 24 “ Miscellaneous 30 “ • Cattle 30 “ Sheep 6 “ Swine 11 “ Peaches, Grapes, &c 1 “ Farming implements 30 “ Stone, marble, &e 1 “ Miscellaneous book for sixth section. 32 Patch work in cotton 10 “ Works of Shop and Factory Clothing. 14 “ American needle-work 12 “ Horses, all work 04 “ Machinery 11 “ Embroidery iu Silk 19 “ Pears 2 “ Apples 2 “ Wood andiron 15 “ Knitting in thread, &c 23 “ Leather 10 “ Miscellaneous, seventh section 18 “ Raised worsted work 10 “ Household department 3 “ Dairy 8 Household miscellany 15 “ Domestic management 22 “ Mules 8 “ sth Class, open 20 “ Horses, Georgia-raised 24 “ Morgan 11 “ Blooded 1G “ PREMIUMS Awarded at the Southern Central Agricultural So ciety, held at Atlanta, during the week ending October 29, 1859. PATCH WORK IN COTTON. Best Quilt —Mrs. A. G. Spies. Marrietta, cup. $5 Woven Counterpin—Miss S. J. Henri’, Gwinnet co., cup. 5 Cotton Quilt (raised work) —Mrs. J. Lins loy. Cobb co., cup. 5 Worsted Quilt —Miss C. Harrison, Mariet ta, cup y Silk Quilt —Mrs. Mary Prior, Madison, cup 5 Cradle Quilt —Mrs. Isaac Winship, Atlan ta, cup. 5 ORNAMENTAL NEEDLE WORK. Best Shirt and six Collars—Mrs. M. J. Daniel, Atlanta, gold thimble, §5 Best dress for child—Miss F. Strickland, Gwinnet co., 2 Best Embroidered Handkerchief—Miss S. North, Griffin, 3 Best Embroidered Vest—Mrs. Carlos De Laigle, Atlanta, gold thimble, 5 Best Jeans Pants—Mrs. Susan G. Leigh, Floyd co., 5 MISCELLANEOUS FOR SIXTH SECTION. Best Hair Wreath—Mrs. S. D. Niles, At lanta, cup, $5 Best Thimble Cushion—Miss M. A. War wick, Atlanta, cup, 2 Best Bread Basket—Mrs. M. J. Leonard, Augusta, plate, . 2 Best Cuff and Collar for lady—Mrs. J. C. Orr, Athens, cup, 5 Best Feather Flowers—Mrs. J. C. Orr, Athens, plate, 3 Best Wiregrass Basket —Mrs. E. J. An derson, Atlanta, 2 Best Flax Mits—Miss C. Harrison, Mar ietta, 1 Best Sofa and Pin Cushions —Mrs. P. Gio vannini, Atlanta, 3 Best specimen of Embroidery—Miss M. Phinizy, Athens, 3 Best Crochet Table Cover—Miss. M. G. Baker, Atlanta, 3 Best Crochett Rigalett—Miss M. A. Bor zelia, 3 WORKS OF THE SHOP AND FACTORY. Best Bolt Flannel—James A. King, Ros well, Cobb co., cup. $5 Best Linsey—J. A. King, do., cup, 5 Best Ga. Plains—J. A. King, do., cup, 5 Best Bolt Cassimere—J. A. King, do., cup, 10 Best Bale Kerseys—J. A. King, Roswell, cup, 10 Best Bale Osnaburgs—Waynman Mills, Upson co., cup, 10 Best Bale Yarn—Troup Factory, cup, 10 Best Bale Wrapping Twine —Troup Fac tory, cup, 3 Best Bbl. White Wheat Flour—J. H. Newton, Athens, 5 Best Bbl. Red Wheat Flour—W. S. Pe ters, Atlanta, cup, ' 5 CLOTHING. Best Wool Hats—J. Bowman, Hall co., cup, $5 FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Best Cotton Press; 0. P. Perry, Augusta, Pitcher, S2O Best Wheat Fan; J. H. Doughty, Cal houn Ga., cup, 5 Best lot of Agricultural Implements; J. W. Bloodworth, Griffin, cup, 10 Best Sub-Soil Plow; J. W. Bloodworth, Griffin, 5 Best Cotton Planter and Grain Drill; M. M. Hall, Agt. Milledgeville, 5 Best Plow for all work (Adams’); M. M. Hall, Agt. do, 5 Best Churn ; M. M. Hall, Agt do, 1 Best Single Mould-Board Plow; J. C. Williamson, Wilkes co., 5 Best Iron Stock Plow; W. A. Heam, Wilkes co., cup, 5 Best Cultivator; W. C. Barnesville, cup, 5 Best Double Moqld-board Plow; J. P. Harris, Byharro, Miss., cup, 5 Best Sweep; J. P. Harris, do., cup, 5 Best Cast Iron How, H. W. Randle, Al abama, cup, 5 Best Double Mould-board Plow; J. B. Hart, Agent, cup, 10 Best Straw Cutter; Clarke & Lewis, At lanta, cup, 5 Best Cotton Side Plow; N. Warlick, Al abama, cup, 5 Improvement in Plow Gear; N. Warlick, Alabama, " 2 Best Corn and Pea Planter; J. M. Mitch ell, Webster, co., 5 Best Cotton Scraper, and Improved Plow Stock, J. W. Ryles, Marietta, 5 Best Wheat Drill and Sower; John Cun ningham, Greensboro, 10 Best Turning Plow on Rooter-Stork ; B. S. Williams, Green co., 5 For improved foot to Rooter-Stork; W. J. Griffin, Marietta, 5 MANUFACTURER OF WOOD AND IRON. Best R. R. Iron; Atlanta Rolling Mill Co., cup, 5 Best Buggy; W. 11. Henderson, Jones boro, cup, 10 Top Buggy; J. J. Ford, Barnesville, Ga. cup, 5 Trotting Ruggy; J. B. Bray, Rome, Ga. cup, 5 Buggy; T. C. Howard, Atlanta, Ga. cup, 5 Best Flour bbl.; T. J. Daniel, Atlanta, cup, 2 Best Tight bbl.; J. J. Daniel, Atlanta, cup, ' 3 Best Wine Cask; 125 gal. T. J. Daniel, Atlanta, cup, 0 Best Bureau ; F. A. William’s,. Atlanta, cup, ‘ 5 Best Sash aud Blinds; Pitts A Cook, At lanta, cup, ' 0 Best Pannel Doors; Pitts & Cook, Atlan ta, cup, 5 Best Self-loading Whcel-Barry, W. H. Manning, Atlanta, 5 Mrs. Reid and Langdon, Premium for improvement in Sewing Cords, by Sewing Machine, ■ 5 MANUFACTURES OF LEATHER. Best Pair Boots; J. Beusse, Athens, Ga. cup, • ' $ 5 Best Buggy Harness, J. M. Lanier, Ala bama, cup, 5 Best and largest selection of Kip, Sole A Harness Leather; Maltly, Cleveland and Lawrenceville, 10 Best Half Dozon Calf Skins; Maltly, Cleveland and Lawrenceville; cup, •' Best Brogans; Eddleman A Banks, cup, 5 Best Shoes for Ladies; Dimick A Mix, Atlanta, cup, ® STONE AND MARBLE. Best Marble Monument; S. V- Oatman, cup, Best Southern mado Perpmmry; Massey A Lansdell, Atlanta; cm* 5 Best Lime; N. C./Yonge, (Cowasena Works) Ala., 7 Machinery. Best Force P/hp; J. M. Lonquest, Gris- lin, cup, / ! ? J Best Stationary Steam-Engine; Atlanta, Maehinojfforks, (Dunning agent) cup, 5 Best Steam Boiler; Atlanta Machine Wojrfs, cup, 10 /Best Horse Powor; Bartii A Nicolai, ■ agents for Messrs. Wilson A Athens, Ga. As this power was given Premium last year, it cannot take it again; though we consider it the best one on exhibition,